Straw hat



H. L. MOSES STRAW HAT Filed Oct. 4. 1926 i mj May 22. 1928.

I JINVENTOR.

ATTORNEYS.

By (jaw 1440M Patented May 22, 1928.

mITE STATES,

HERBERT nMosns, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, assrenon TO M. s. LEVYANID sons,

1,671,082 PATENT OFFICE.

INQ, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND. I

STRAW HAT.

Application filed October 4, 1926. Serial No. 139,258.

My invention is directed to a new and useful improvement in straw hats and has for its object to provide an improved construction of hat whereby, although the same is of the stiff straw variety, the brim portions shall possess flexibility at a place not present in any stifl straw hat within my knowled e.

The improved construction also enables the brim to possess a novel and attractive appearance and readily lends itself to variations in the appearance of the hat.

' The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein,

Fig. 1 shows a. hat in plan or top vlew wherein my invention is embodied.

Fig. 2 shows a portion of the crown and the narrow lateral flange at the base thereof.

Fig. 3 illustrates an enlarged cross-sectional detail through the brim and a portion of the crown.

Fig. & shows a sectional detail of the detached under brim, and I Fig.5 illustrates a cross-sectional detail 1 through the brim and crown-wall of the complete hat.

In carrying out my invention, I form a crown 6 substantially as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing, with an annular depending wall 7 and with a lateral narrow flange 8 at the base of the crown-wall which flange extends outwardly from said wall.

To the outwardly extending narrow flange 8, I secure a plurality of straw braids 9 of an unstifl'enedstraw, so that said added braids 9 shall be flexible. These braids are stitched together and the innermost braid of this flexible section is stitched to the outer rim-edge 10 of the narrow flange 8.

Around the outer rim-edge of the flexible section 9, I secure the inner rim-edge 11, of another stiffened straw-braid section 12, so that the brim is thus made up of an outer stiflened section 12, an inner narrow flange 8, at the base of the crown, and an intermediate flexible straw-braid section 9,the latter being more flexible than the inner narrow flange or the outer stiffened section and thus providing flexibility for the outer stiffened brim section.

'The intermediate flexible section of the brim may be formed of any variety or combination of straw braid or other material if desired, but in practice I have found it quite attractive to employ a straw of a different braid in this intermediate brim-section from thatemployed in the outer section or the crown-flange.

To the crownflange 8; the flexible. sec tion.9 and the stiffened brim section 12, I preferably secured an under brim which latter is illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawing.

This under brim, in this instance, is formed of three sections in that it comprises an inner angular crown-base section 13, having a vertical flange portion 1 1 and a horizontal flange-portion 15; an intermediate flexible under-brim section 16, and an outer underbrim section 17.

These three under-brim sections 1316 and 1.7 are all stitched together to produce the under-brim unit illustrated in Fig. 4,

of the drawing, with the intermediate flexible section 16 directly beneath the most'flexible section 9 of the upper brim. and this entire unit is then placed against the under side of the upper brim and crown units, disclosed in F 3, with the vertical flange portion 1 1, of the crown-base section extending up into and against the crown wall 7.

The fitted-together units are then permanently stitched together, as shown in Fig. 5, and the sweat-band 18 with its attached tape 19, are then stitched to the crown-base sec tion 13.

By forming the brim of the hat from several upper units, and additional lower units when preferred, I am able to subject any one of those units to a more or lessstiflening process and to any degree of stiffness I desire, so that I may produce a hat having a brim with certain areas stifler than other areas, because each unit may be separately treated, and thus be made as flexible or as stifl as desired.

Also because of the unit structure, I may readily vary the character of the straw edge of the outwardly extending crown flange, and an annular stiflened brim sectional-round the outer edge of the flexible intermediate brimsection, said. stifl ened brim section having its inner annular edge secured to the outer annular edge of said flexible intermediate brim section.

2. A straw hat comprising a crown having an annular depending wall with an out wardly extending; flange around the base of the crown wall, an intermediate flexible brim section forming a part of the brine and disposed wholly within the brim and having its inner annular edge secured to the having an underbrimhaving a flexible section directly beneath the intermediate flexible' section 0d the upper brim In testimony whereof I a-fllx my signa ture i i I HERBERT L. MOSES. 

